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LawCareers.Net has launched a brand-new podcast series to boost aspiring lawyers’ commercial awareness.
In each episode, COMMERCIAL CONNECT will take students through one of the top trending commercial issues of the month.
Listeners can follow along as LawCareers.Net’s Niamh Gray breaks down trending commercial issues to boost aspiring lawyers’ commercial mindset, highlighting key talking points for those all-important training contract and vacation scheme interviews.
COMMERCIAL CONNECT’s first episode, ‘UK strikes: workers v government’, runs through the recent UK strikes, including what the related political, economic, social, legal, and environmental factors are – and why it all matters when it comes to being commercially aware.
Prefer to read about the strikes? You can read the full PESTLE analysis in Niamh’s LCN Says.
You can listen to the podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple music, or any of your favourite podcast platforms or on the LawCareers.Net Podcast hub .
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For more content to help you boost your commercial awareness, check out our Commercial Awareness hub.